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English
Etymology
Latin: cōnfessiō (“confession”) + amantis (“of loving”, the genitive singular of amāns, “loving”, the present active participle of amō, “I love”)
Pronunciation
Noun
confessio amantis (plural confessiones amantis or confessiones amantium)
- A lover’s confession.
1835, Old Maids; Their Varieties, Characters, and Conditions, page 91:We think we cannot do better than favour our gentle and ungentle readers with the two following letters — both from distinguished Accidental Old Maids — and addressed to two young maidens, who had no desire that any accident should intervene which might devote them to what they most erroneously denominated ‘joyless celibacy.’ — These letters are in themselves curious ‘confessiones amantium.’
Usage notes
- If “a lover’s confessions” (that is, the multiple confessions of one lover) is the intended sense, use confessiones amantis; if “lovers’ confessions” (the multiple confessions of multiple lovers), use confessiones amantium.
- This phrase occurs overwhelmingly more commonly as the title of John Gower’s Middle English epic poem of the same name.